After breakfast, you have to get down to business. Ba bone still has to be robbed, and now Deputy Director Xia has opened the skylight to say something, yesterday's battle, his subordinates suffered a big loss, and they also saw my wrist, the effect of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger should not be small In recent days, he will definitely not dare to provoke me. And I happened to use the last few days to plan how to grab the bael.

"Let's go, let's go to the gray squirrel." Until then, I still have to do what I promised the gray squirrel, I calculated the time, and the green poison spell is almost away, so it's time to undo the spell for him.

I took the car to the old alley where the gray squirrel lived, went upstairs, knocked on the door, but waited for a while and there was no movement inside. I thought Squirrel was out, so I went outside and saw no sign of him in the game room. When I turned back, I saw an old man sitting at the door, because I really didn't understand Cantonese, so I asked Yang Ran to go up and ask about the situation. After a few exchanges, Yang Ran turned back to me and said, "This old man is the head of this building, and he drinks tea at the door every day, and he said that the gray squirrel has not come out since yesterday afternoon when he came home." ”

I wondered, if he was at home, why didn't he open the door for us? The more I thought about it, the more I felt that something was wrong, and I hurried upstairs, and knocked on the door of the gray squirrel, but there was still no movement inside. With a heartbeat, I asked Yang Ran to stare at the back, and I slapped the door with my palm, and the door lock immediately broke, I rushed into the house, and when I looked up, a male corpse was lying on the bed!

I was taken aback, and Yang Ran next to me shouted "wow", and saw a big snake with black and white flowers coiling beside the bed, spitting out letters, and the upper body straightened up slightly, making a "hissing" sound, warning us not to approach.

As soon as I saw this scene, I finally understood!

Last night, the middle-aged man brought someone to me for trouble, and at that time he had already discovered something that should be a foreign cooperation, the big fat man was killed, and the middleman who planned this matter, the gray squirrel, may not end well. The male corpse lying on the bed was a gray squirrel, and it is estimated that he did not dare to go out that night, so he hid at home and was put on the bed with a poisonous snake. This guy slept on the bed and pressed it, and the poisonous snake opened its mouth and bit it, and it killed him. As for why he didn't run out to seek medical attention, it can be seen from the state of the scene and the several wine bottles scattered around the bed that he must have drunk a lot of alcohol last night. Alcohol paralyzed consciousness, and it was estimated that he felt pain when he was bitten by a snake, but he didn't care if his head was broken when he drank too much, and this pain must have been ignored by him, and he finally died at home.

Yang Ran walked out for a while, and when she came in again, she was holding a kitchen knife in her hand, this girl had no place to spread a fire in her heart, although the gray squirrel betrayed her several times, but after all, she was once a friend, and everything in the past didn't matter if everyone died. Yang Ran rushed forward with a kitchen knife, and the poisonous snake immediately reacted to attack, but Yang Ran was agile and easily dodged the poisonous snake's attack, and then held the kitchen knife and slashed at the poisonous snake. Although the poisonous snake dodged its head, its body still didn't dodge, and she split its body into two knots with a knife! But the head of the snake suddenly turned around and bit Yang Ran's hand, at the critical moment, Yang Ran did not panic, took a step back, easily dodged, and then picked up the kitchen knife and chopped the snake's head to pieces.

I watched from the sidelines and sighed softly. This girl has a fire in her heart and has nowhere to vent, and now she picks up a kitchen knife and cuts a snake if she can vent.

I didn't say anything, I turned my head and walked around the house, this place should not stay for a long time, after all, there is a corpse here, and it is also the territory of Deputy Director Xia, if someone finds us with the corpse, it will be troublesome to be locked in the bureau. But I really found something on the table in the gray squirrel's living room, and when I opened it, it turned out to be some expert information about the study of paleontology here in Guangzhou, and it seemed that the gray squirrel itself was secretly and silently investigating the matter of the aquatic demon mackerel bone.

I pulled out the marked papers, and then turned back to Yang Ran in the room and shouted, "Let's go, this place is not suitable for a long time." ”

She was carrying a bloody kitchen knife, and the poisonous snake on the ground had been chopped in, and the blood was fainting on the floor. The girl looked back at me blankly, but soon a smile appeared on her blank face.

At that time, I didn't pay much attention to Yang Ran's changes, and I realized many years later that she had changed a little on that night, that day, maybe it was the reason for the iron-blooded female instructor in the 507 Institute later.

I went to a nearby public phone booth to call the police, and then found a small restaurant nearby to sit down. Yang Ran ordered a pot of tea, and I began to study the papers.

Obviously, the research of the gray squirrel is still very fruitful, as for why he did these studies, it may be to prove the value of his existence to Deputy Director Xia. However, he is no longer useful, and now he has become a useful material for me.

There are seven marked sheets, each of which describes an expert in paleontological research. I drank tea and looked at Yang Ran carefully.

"When you saw the backerel at that time, didn't you also see several people in white coats? How many people are there in the white coats? Yang Ran asked suspiciously.

I thought about it for a while and said, "It seems to be five, I don't know six yet, I can't remember the specifics, and I can't remember what they looked like, but I only remember the one who took the lead." ”

"Surely not seven?" Yang Ran asked again.

I nodded affirmatively and said, "Oh, I see what you mean." We have seven pieces of information in our hands, which means that there is a person who is not in these materials, in other words, we can find a breakthrough in this person. ”

"Yes, if these people are asked by Deputy Director Xia to study the backerel, they will definitely be controlled by Deputy Director Xia, and we will definitely not be able to contact them. But the 'fish that slipped through the net' may still be encountered by us. Yang Ran, who calmed down, is not weak in his analytical ability, and what he said is also the truth.

I took a sip of tea, pondered for a moment, and then nodded, "Okay, in this case, let's visit one by one." Let's see if we can meet this 'fish that slips through the net'. ”

Paleontology research is not treated in Chinese universities, let alone paleontology, archaeology, historical architecture in this area of no "money" majors are also unpopular in universities, in recent years some unpopular majors graduates are only a few people, and later, this field of talent has become a scarce profession.

We followed some of the information left by the gray squirrel, wandered around for most of the day, and interviewed several people on the information, but they were really not there. Through understanding, some students and assistants said that they had been invited by an institution to study in a foreign country and would not be able to return for at least two or three months.

Looking at it this way, the few people in white coats I saw at that time should be these people in the data. And the ancient creature they studied was the aquatic demon backerel.

"It's not a university, is it?" It was already past three o'clock in the afternoon, and I got out of the car and was a little surprised to see that the place I was in was actually a small factory. The previous interviewees were all university teachers or professors, but the man on this piece of information actually had a factory address.

"Yes, this is it." Yang Ran said after checking the address.

"Strange......" I was wondering, the factory guard on duty saw us, opened the window and waved at us, I walked forward, heard him ask, "Two little comrades, who are you looking for?" ”

"Is Wang Bing there?" I asked.

"Oh, looking for Wang Shusheng, haha, yes, I'll give you a call, by the way, who are you?" The doorman asked again with a smile.

"Oh, his friend, ask him about the family." I said casually.

The doorman immediately called, and after a while I saw a thin man wearing glasses walking out of the factory, wearing gray overalls and sleeve covers, looking less like an expert in paleontology, more like a bookkeeper sitting in the bookkeeper and planning to make a plan.

"Scholar Wang, these two are coming to you." The doorman shouted. He looked at us and couldn't help but look strange.